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How to slaughter the pig that is named the US
military? There are hundreds of ways of course and all those ways have
their pro's and contra's. Their benefits and their costs in human lives,
effort, money and so on and so on.
One way is to try to pump up the US military
budget to 600 billion or 750 billion in a relatively short notice, to try
to pump up the budget of the newly created department of Homeland defense
from 40 to 200+ billion. Pumping up US military spending looks a wise
strategy and indeed the operatives in Iraq and the Afghan landscape do
their best with their limited means...
Another way is found when the international
community would impose economical sanctions upon the United States of
America until they have disarmed until the level as common in decent
democracies. Just like the former League of Nations that rose from the
ashes of World War One, the present United Nations is far to weak to whip
the most powerful nations there where they feel it... Only weak nations
get economical sanctions at their ass.
So a formal 'economical sanction regime' from the present United Nations
will likely not make it.
Of course there are hundreds of ways more to
think upon, but from an operational point of view it might make much
wisdom in the long run to (car)bomb simultaneously the largest
(international) investors in the USA. Those investors could be large
pension funds or large bond investors and large so called private
investors. Targets chosen from a top 50 or top 100 list and with
relatively little cost a lot of billions could be withdrawn from the USA.
That will hurt them severely and given the fact that Americans already
make 15% more working hours compared to decent democracies they hardly can
work harder...
Also my best friend Alan Greenspan (the present head of the Federal
banking system) helped me yesterday with remarking that Americans need to
work longer during their lifespan and retire years later than now.
(It can help a lot if international investors would feel the heat of
amoral investments).
So far this intro, in the table below you can
see the historical oversight of US military spending from the end of World
War Two until now. All money numbers are calculated back to '2002 US$'.
Remark that the jump from 1946 to 1947 is very interesting, after that the
Americans started making Cold War against Stalin (understandable, but
later they just could not stop this any longer and it grew out of
control). Here is the table:
| Year | Spending (in US$
year 2002 value |
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| 1946 | $556.9 | | 1947 | 52.4 | | 1948 | 103.9 | | 1949 | 144.2 | | 1950 | 141.2 | | 1951 | 224.3 | | 1952 | 402.1 | | 1953 | 442.3 | | 1954 | 420.9 | | 1955 | 376.9 | | 1956 | 356.2 | | 1957 | 360.9 | | 1958 | 352.9 | | 1959 | 352.5 | | 1960 | 344.3 | | 1961 | 344.0 | | 1962 | 363.4 | | 1963 | 368.0 | | 1964 | 364.4 | | 1965 | 333.1 | | 1966 | 356.2 | | 1967 | 412.0 | | 1968 | 449.3 | | 1969 | 438.1 | | 1970 | 406.3 | | 1971 | 370.6 | | 1972 | 343.8 | | 1973 | 313.3 | | 1974 | 299.7 | | 1975 | 293.3 | | 1976 | 283.8 | | 1977 | 286.2 | | 1978 | 286.5 | | 1979 | 295.6 | | 1980 | 303.4 | | 1981 | 317.4 | | 1982 | 339.4 | | 1983 | 366.7 | | 1984 | 381.7 | | 1985 | 405.4 | | 1986 | 426.6 | | 1987 | 427.9 | | 1988 | 426.4 | | 1989 | 427.7 | | 1990 | 409.7 | | 1991 | 358.1 | | 1992 | 379.5 | | 1993 | 358.6 | | 1994 | 338.6 | | 1995 | 321.6 | | 1996 | 307.4 | | 1997 | 305.3 | | 1998 | 296.7 | | 1999 | 298.4 | | 2000 | 311.7 | | 2001 | 307.8 | | 2002 | 328.7 | | 2003 | 379.31 | | 2004 | 379.91,2 |
1 Figures based on requested defense budget, not actual spending.
2 In addition, President Bush has asked Congress for $87 billion to fund the war and reconstruction effort in Iraq.
Comment: How to pump up the volume? My
dear readers must invest when they can along the limits of asymmetrical
warfare. When they can create a damage of 10 billion with an
initial investment of just a thousand dollars, they are for sure
heroes to the story...
But only one percent of this '10 billion damage' is of course also
a great achievement. You must have luck, you must bide your time
and somehow you must roll into the right opportunity. And then you
strike without thinking upon a signal given.
Or not my dear reader?
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Extra information upon the US military budget
for next (fiscal) year, info found is from 24 June (so already a few
months old). Military spending climbs to 447 billion US$, not bad but the
600 to 750 billion US$ target is still far off. Quoting:
| The $447.2 billion defense authorization bill includes $25 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, which may have to be augmented next year, and an increase of more than $20 billion over current levels for other expenditures. Included are record expenditures of about $70 billion for development of an array of planes, ships and weapons, surpassing even the buildup of the 1980s.
Although Republicans agreed to require operational tests next year, they balked at forcing them to be conducted by an independent testing office. They also refused to condition spending for new weaponry on any test results and rejected proposals to shift some of the funds to homeland security programs.
Democrats also failed to derail the new nuclear weapons, make war profiteering a crime and bar private contractors from interrogating war prisoners.
Comment: Cold and dry we simply have to observe that indeed
wisdom is found into killing of Americans into the thousands and
the hundred of thousands. This whole war on terror is just a dwarf
compared to the old MAD doctrines (MAD=Mutual Assured Destruction)
from the cold war.
We see these people are crazy, we must kill them like mad dogs are
killed.
This is logic, this is not emotional or so. Just plain logic
emerging from a mathematical mindset...
At last I want to remark that there is only little use in using
private interrogators for war prisoners, anyway as I wrote to the
Pentagon on 30 April or begin June this year; They will fall under
the 'Name, Rank & Soldier Number' regime. When you use even
civil interrogators the operatives have automatic some moral right
into killing civilians. Please US Senate, where are your
logics? |
Title: Just
a little greeting card to this US defense budget.
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